now then all, I thought when I signed up for a little help for a friend that I was entering a real of informative gentlemen who share expertise and knowledge to help a fellow who is struggling.....guess I knocked at the wrong door... cos its full of seemingly condescending quite uninformative p.ricks... except for Keithmac and ericmark ( though I wouldn't want to resort to that method of fault finding all the same)
I didn't realise I to imbibe the contents of several dictionaries of electricians twang before I could state the predicament ...
I found the fault with a £1.99 tester from boyes... it has a LED reading that when you put ( am I slowing it down for you enough) your thumb, yes the big one at the end over tboth contacts it gives a reading of the live voltage hence me stating 12v...
testing the ring by taking off each sockets and seeing that behind each one are two twin & earth cables (2.5mm) my methology was to see with limited resources where the ring began and at what point it stopped working as in receive 230v without the rcb tripping ...= no fault
yer following me so far....as it is a concrete floor , cables go up yes the same direction your fingers go up your nose pointing to your eyes
that lead me to the ceiling in which the lighting circuit was...oooo smaller cables.... I had to take a florry down no not a flower, a long light about 4ft in old money and I put in a batten lamp holder, it was whilst asserting which was the "switch" wire...I found that each lighting cable was live mmmm another cuppa...slurp biccy later, the ring had a spur in the ceiling (took ceiling down- don't do things by half, let the dog see the rabbit ....)and a lighting cable was entwined, no it was embraced with the spurred wire... the spur went up and was sent under the bath along with its lighting companion and the disappeared together into the brick cavity of the outside wall, is there a light outside I asked my friend in lay mans terms.... he was quivering in the corner still in awe of the Magic wires that carry E-LEC-Trickery (as he put it)
I went outside...the wind was howling....etc etc would you adam and eve it cor blimey and other cockney phrases... there was a 2.5mm wire in the guttering, honestly there wus yer hona, I's swears down....
my now infamous tester appeared and probed and probed the rascal from the guttering...take that I said... it did not reply
no voltage...mmm strange
now as this little device could not through any type of sorcery tell me of the integrity of the otter cable as to its conductive traits I assumed that because of the howling wind... remember that do you?....
the wishing and the to-ing and fro-wing of the cable that it may have broken along its entrance to the building under the roof tiles
I went inside and confronted the ceiling at a point I deemed was right under the cold and withered outside cable... and bashed a hole in the ceiling about 10" square....AHA no not the pop group who had a hit with TAKE-ON-ME.....Ahaaaaa more like it
there before me was a burnt cable a black burnt cable in front of me at one side it was dead....dead i tell you I separated it and the other was live ...alive I tell you....I ran to my extensive tool box and produced a 40amp junction box, lovely brown fleck colour with shiney brass screws inside... having fitted the JB ( hope that was not too technical a word for you....)and hey presto arriva derchy, well I'll go tho the foot of our stairs.... SUCCESS.... who needs ya... in your face you arrogant pompous newts
what av ya gotta say about that....( well mine was considerably more informative than yaows !)
Oh by the way my mate is well chuffed... all for the price of a handshake a cuppa and a choccy biccy.....
